Introduction

Pamela L. Caughie

1-10

Definitional excursions

the meanings of modern/ modernity/modernism

Susan Stanford Friedman

11-32

Uncanny modernism, or analysis interminable

Stephen Ross

33-52

Imagining world literatures

modernism and comparative literature

Jessica Berman

53-70

Taking the detour, finding the rebels

crossroads of Caribbean and modernist studies

Mary L. Emery

71-91

Religion and modernity

the case of the Lourdes shrine in nineteenth-century France

Suzanne K. Kaufman

92-108

Balzac's golden triangles in the colonial genealogies of French modernism

Liz Constable

109-127

Modern, moderne, and modernistic

Le Corbusier, Thomas Wallis and the problem of art deco

Bridget Elliott

128-146

Fantasies of the new class

new criticism, Harvard sociology, and the idea of the university

Stephen Schryer

147-166

Downsizing the "great divide"

a reflexive approach to modernism, disciplinarity, and class

Lois Cucullu

167-181

Lady Chatterley's Broker

banking on modernism

Jonathan Rose

182-196

Modernism, economics, anthropology

Glenn Willmott

197-209

Modernist studies and anthropology

reflections on the past, present, and possible futures

Marc Manganaro

210-220

"The famished roar of automobiles"

modernity, the internal combustion engine, and modernism

Garry Leonard

221-241

The mass production of the senses

classical cinema as vernacular modernism

Miriam Bratu Hansen

242-258

Afterword

Susan Stanford Friedman

259-263